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What's the future of ACA? Everywhere you look there is mention of repeal and replace. What does the future of healthcare look like and will it be replaced? If so with what, (Obama, B., 2017)
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1616577#t=article
The Affordable Care Act
So repeal and replace is inevitable. Are there any parts of the ACA which will remain intact? The likelihood is that the areas which President Elect Trump will keep will be:
- Guarantee Issue
- Dependent Coverage
(Gostlin, L., Hyman, D., & Jacobson, P., 2017)
http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2588839
Addiction and Pain Medications
Too often in emergency rooms across America patients are leaving without prescription pain killers. Opoid addiction is rampant and physicians are no longer okay with handing a patient a script for opioid. Instead, more frequently than not patients are told to take Tylenol and other OTC pain medications as a lesser evil. (Dowell, D., Farley, T., & Kunins, H., 2015)
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6418a3.htm